An Embarrassed American

An Embarrassed American : Viv : email withdrawn : 2007-06-10

Great stuff you have on your site, Roedy. Your reasons for
disliking Bush come from the perspective of living in Canada… can you imagine
being here, interacting with intelligent and sensitive people from other countries and
have to preface most conversations with, But I don’t agree
with Bush? My dislike for him is visceral as well as being anchored in fact; your
website points to his idiocy. But I also sense something just plain evil about him. If we
were in the same room together, I would find a way to leave.

I’m convinced that there’s something very deep and very nefarious
occurring behind the scenes. How else could this person become the president of the US?
Why would the Democratic party not pursue impeachment with more voracity? Why would
anyone here, let alone any leader of any other country, engage in conversation with
him?

There are two things going on under the covers besides the brutality of
the wars:

Sadistic sexual perversion and paedophilia. Bush is a sadist and part of his
motivation for war is that he can torture and sexually humiliate, especially children.
He still has refused to hand over his child torture and rape tapes to Judge
Hellerstein. Bush smirks because he can get away with it. This is why you unconsciously
feel unclean after even viewing a videotape of him.

The many murders. Like Putin, Bush orders people he fears assassinated. There is a pattern of many
people being assassinated only Bush would have motive to kill. This is why
politicians have been so loathe to cross him or expose him.

Although you didn’t ask for essays, I’m going to give you one…
written here and now on a rainy Sunday afternoon in Seattle because… well because
I believe so strongly in freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of the written
word and as of yet, the government hasn’t been successful in usurping the entire
Constitution.

As a female working in a male-dominated industry, I have been put to the test over and
over and over again in my thirty-plus years in this career. I have had to examine and
re-examine the words I use, the perfection of my product, the higher level of managerial
ability, etc. I have, as a single mom, been responsible for my own debts and the raising
of my beautiful daughter without help from anyone. As I look at this man Bush and read
that he attained a Masters status from Harvard, I cannot believe it. I don’t mean
that, gosh…how great and gee, I can’t believe he did all of that. I mean, I
really can’t believe it. There is no possible way, unless his education was
purchased for him, that any professor in a junior level 2-year college would have passed
him through. To earn a degree from Harvard one must be competent. One must possess some
critical thinking ability. One must be capable of defending one’s beliefs and be
able to construct sentences that actually lead from one idea to another without breaks in
consciousness.

During the 2000 campaign, I recall saying to my friends that
if Bush were to be elected, I hoped that he would simply sit in the Oval Office and play
with paperclips. Don’t answer the phone. Don’t schedule a lunch. Don’t
plan a trip. Just sit there inserting one clip into the end of another until the long
four years had passed. But, the worst happened and he was ushered into office without
need for an election and we were immediately presented with this gross embarrassment of
political power. Then… September happened. We, as a fully cohesive nation, cried
together. We listened to songs that touched our souls. We mourned. And some of us, myself
included, gave considerable thought to what image we had been projecting to the world and
what hypocritical deeds we had maneuvered to bring us to a place where we were hated that
much. I came to some fairly enlightened conclusions, including admitting that our
government had failed us when they put themselves in a position of blackmail with other
governments, including Saudi Arabia. I knew we were in for some wicked years but I still
held hope that some brilliance would emerge from the center of the Country during the
2004 election and we may be able to replace our colorful
President. But, as fate has it, Kerry self imploded and here we are again…
counting the days until we can call Bush the ex-president.

During these depressive years, people have lost their enthusiasm to even try to think
to the future. We, the People…, the beginning of our
Constitution, became We, the Suspected… It was as
though we owned our Country and our rights in 1999 and today,
we own nothing. The Bush Administration and its subversive policies have stolen our hope
and our freedoms and our belief that there are actually leaders with principles and
ethics who have our best interest at heart as they pass law after law, regulation after
regulation. The average cost of a home, a small home, an old home, in America is out of
the reach of a high majority of citizens. There is no discussion in Washington about
improving a national railroad system to wean us from petroleum. There is no vision about
how to improve our educational system so we don’t produce more uneducated people
who can rise to authority as our current president has done. We have no talks about
logically solving our healthcare problems. We sell off beautiful parts of our cities for
Big Macs and Breakfast Burritos.

Having a Mission Statement isn’t only a fine idea for a new business. It’s
an exercise in growth for individual people and I believe it should be a requirement for
a nation to have a Mission Statement. In the United States, ours might be something like
this: Our Mission Statement includes the conviction that we, as a nation, will:

speak the truth to the citizens of the world, including our own national
citizens;

pursue excellence in the education of our people and provide resources for advanced
learning to those who desire it;

ensure that no person will be denied medical assistance as required for his or her
quality of life to improve;

respect the cultures of other countries and embrace their differences without
requiring that they adopt our values;

avoid pontificating about human rights or other ethical positions, especially when
we are failing in those pursuits within our own borders;

decide who we are…really who we are…and ask ourselves the very
difficult questions, like: would we respect another country that spoke to us and
treated us as we do to others? There is much value in teaching by example. We must
begin correcting our own errors before we can have any credibility when speaking to
others about theirs.

I realize this is an excessively long e-mail and I want to thank you sincerely if
you’ve gotten this far. Please feel free to write back if you so choose.